Re: [Usability] Interacting with open folders

[pablo quiros <polmac1985 yahoo es>]

Well, first of all, let me introduce myself, as this is my first mail to
the list.

I agree with John Keller's point of view, I think a right click on the
background would be the most suitable for this purpose, and much more
intuitive than adding a button to the window, IMHO.

And talking about folder properties, I think it would be interesting to
add some option anywhere to change the permissions of all the files
inside. Now, you can change the permissions of the folder itself, but
there is no way of easily changing the permissions of the folder and its
contents. It is a great handicap when you want to change permissions for
a folder and everything inside, and the folder has more folders inside,
which have more folders inside... and you have to change all the
permissions by hand. Maybe some 'change content permissions' option
would be possible and easy to implement.

Pablo


El jue, 10-02-2005 a las 17:16 +0100, John Keller escribió:
> Steven Garrity wrote:
> > Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> > 
> >> Wouldn't it be better to supply a button, in the window, to select the 
> >> open folder? So you would select the folder the same way you select 
> >> its files. And you can keep using the existing menu (and the 
> >> right-mouse menu if you like), with no clutter I can see.
> >>
> >> The question remains how to extend this to drag the open folder to 
> >> some other place.
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, not being able to drag an open window into the trash is a strange 
> > hole. That said, the behaviour of dragging windows and dragging nautilus 
> > file/folder objects is clearly different.
> > 
> > Maybe this is a case for the fancy new animation capabilities coming 
> > with xorg improvements.
> 
> This was something that was discussed briefly on the Nautilus list back 
> in May [1]. I'd replied [2] that a right-click on the background of the 
> open folder window was roughly equivalent to a right-click on the icon 
> representing the folder. (And, as Steven said in a parent message, the 
> "File" menu would make sense for the current-folder options.)
> 
> Unfortunately, the discussion petered out before it got far enough to 
> have a patch or decision com out of it. I still think that it would be a 
> much-welcomed refinement of Nautilus's implementation of the spatial 
> browser.
> 
> As far as drag objects, I've always felt both the Mac (Classic, I don't 
> know about OS X) and Windows 95 (yes, really) got it right: The icon in 
> their title bars acted as a drag proxy. So, dragging the open folder 
> window's title bar icon to the trash would delete folder, dragging it to 
> another folder would move or copy it, etc.
> 
> The window itself would act as a drag target, of course. The trick is, 
> the icon in the title bar isn't really discoverable. But at least it 
> would be a start before deciding (or not) to add more widgets.
> 
> - John
> 
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-May/msg00018.html
> [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-May/msg00033.html
> 
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